anniversaries
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St Valentine’s Day in Leicester was all wind, rain and freezing cold temperatures, but the weather had not deterred the many people who had come to the King Richard III Visitor Centre. They were eager to see the exhibition about the man who had died in battle at nearby Bosworth in 1485, was lost for…
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http://sunnesandroses.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/the-sunne-in-splendour-part-2.html
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William Catesby, a Northamptonshire lawyer, was one of only three people executed in the aftermath of Bosworth, the others being a West Country father and son. From this and other circumstantial evidence, we are inexorably drawn to the conclusion that this happened because he was the only surviving layman who knew the details of Edward…
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……….. that the third Duke of Norfolk was a keen chess player and invented the “queen sacrifice”?
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“The wooden bust is all that’s left of the effigy that graced hiscoffin on procession. So I suppose you’re right — the effigy is basedon the death mask. But if you Google for desk mask Henry VII, the bitof effigy is what comes up. Sorry for not being more exact. To me, the effigy…
The New Murrey and Blue blog 